Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Italy meets Central Europe — Habsburg architecture, Slovenian and Austrian influences, top white wines from Collio.
Cold winters (4°C avg Jan), warm summers (26°C avg Jul). Trieste hit by the Bora wind (gusts to 150 km/h).
Quiet, cultured, deeply Mitteleuropean. Trieste's coffeehouses, Udine's Friulian dignity, Collio winemakers. Strong work ethic, high salaries, low crime.
$1,500–$2,500/mo. Trieste is one of Italy's best-value coastal cities.
Cattinara in Trieste and Udine University Hospital are both excellent.
Habsburg domain for centuries, only fully Italian after WWII. Trieste was a UN-administered Free Territory until 1954.
- ◆Officially quadrilingual: Italian, Friulian, Slovenian, German.
- ◆Trieste was the main port of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
- ◆Birthplace of illy coffee.
- ◆Produces Italy's most acclaimed white wines (Collio DOC).
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